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JOHN LAUGHLAND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS – A LIFE IN A POLITICAL VACUUM
Achieving common standards of democracy is, technically, not possible and, moreover, not even desirable. There is an old joke among political scientists to the effect that the best democracies in Europe are all monarchies: Britain, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries and so on, which are usually thought as being mature democracies. Nevertheless, they are all, in fact, monarchies.